Thanks to better European cooperation, more work is now being done than in the past, but many fines remain unpaid. Not entirely coincidentally, it is the Eastern neighbors who receive the most additional assessments. On the basis of international and European legislation, it is possible for authorities to mutually exchange data from vehicle registers. For example, the French police can find out name and address via the RDW on the basis of the license plate. Unpaid fines cost the municipalities millions of euros.

Almost every day the same scenario at Eindhoven Airport. Truck drivers park their car along Marinus van Meelweg, or in one of the other side streets, and continue on foot to the airport where they check in and return home. Not only residents but also companies are increasingly bothered by long-term parking in municipalities with an industrial estate or an airport.

The ability to fine foreign license plate holders more often is also due to the European Cross Border Enforcement (CBE) directive, which makes it easier to exchange license plate data between EU countries. This allows the violations detected with a digital enforcement tool, such as speeding offenses and driving through a red light, to be processed automatically.

collection percentage of foreign fines

In this phase, i.e. up to and including the second payment reminder, the average collection rate of all traffic fines imposed on foreigners in 2019 is 81,4%. The collection percentages from 2020 are not yet available, because traffic fines imposed or sent at the end of 2020 are still open to objection and appeal and are therefore not yet irrevocable.

The Minister of Justice and Security, Ferd Grapperhaus, says that foreign traffic offenders cannot get away with committing traffic offenses in the Netherlands. He notes that the vast majority of them are financial consequences is affected by their behavior and also bears it. 

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